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Mark Rober just set up one of the most interesting self-driving tests of 2025, and he did it by imitating Looney Tunes. The former NASA engineer and current YouTube mad scientist recreated the classic gag where Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel onto a wall to fool the Road Runner.

Only this time, the test subject wasn’t a cartoon bird… it was a self-driving Tesla Model Y.

The result? A full-speed, 40 MPH impact straight into the wall. Watch the video and tell us what you think!

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago

Tesla is trash.

Fuck Elon musk.

[–] arankays@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago (22 children)

I tried Waymo when I was visiting LA a few months ago. Genuinely terrific stuff.

I do not trust Teslas one bit though.

[–] kenoh@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

Tesla doesn't use lidar for its sensing, living on the prayer that AI will just get good enough soon enough. Absolutely galaxy brained decision.

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[–] blackluster117@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Still think LIDAR is inferior to computer vision, Elon?

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 21 hours ago

That was never in question, they just went with cameras because they're dirt cheap compared to lidar.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

can someone do this to trumps tesla please

[–] lonerangers1@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

In silicon valley there is an episode where a bunch of phones explode because of a software problem. A lot like the pager attack trump got a trophy for. And musk could take any of these cars and "self drive" them to where ever, and "update" their discharge parameters or something, then boom. The trucks are 10k lbs too. Bet you could take a small building down with one without much fuss. They are pretty fast. Scary shit. Musk is a huge problem. Watch all gov envoys being his swasticars and then he can take people out russian style. opps, accident, again.

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[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The war against AI will be fought with Looney Tunes bits.

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[–] regrub@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I would say that it's a good idea to paint more tunnels on walls, but then I remember how dumb human drivers are too

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[–] kane@femboys.biz 8 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Can this be solved with just cameras, or would this need additional hardware? I know they removed LIDAR, but thought that would only be effective short range, and would not be too helpful at 65 km/h.

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[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I am a bit disappointed to not see the Tesla crash into a real wall. I feel a bit click baited here.

Also, they prepared the polystyrene wall to break this cartoonishly, but still played on being surprised.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I’m a bit disappointed they painted identical to the actual road. Probably a lot of humans will get fooled by that one. We should send a challenge back: how looney toons can you get? Will something more cartoonish fool it? Will a different landscape fool it? How about drawing an oncoming train?

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